June 6, 2026
D-Day
D-Day anniversary: WWII, the Normandy invasion, and heroes of the Second World War.
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Calaruga Shark Media PI. I'm Mark Ellison and today's theme
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is D Day Anniversary one two. The Normandy Invasion and
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Heroes of the Second World War. Question one. In the
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months before D Day, Allied planners orchestrated an elaborate deception
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using dummy tanks, fake radio traffic, and a notional army
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under General George S. Patten to convince the Germans the
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main landing would come at the Pot de Calais rather
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than Normandy. What was the code name of this deception plan?
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Question two? Just after midnight on the sixth of June
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nineteen forty four, British glider troops crash landed within yards
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of two bridges over the cann Canal and the River
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Orne and seized them in a lightning raid to protect
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the invasion's eastern flank. What was the code name for
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this glider assault? Question three. Thousands of Allied soldiers reached
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the Normandy beaches aboard shallow draft landing craft with drop
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down ramps known as LCVPs or Higgins Boats. Which American
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boat builder designed and mass produced these craft? Question four?
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On D Day, US troops used rocket fired grapnels and
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ladders to climb the one hundred foot cliffs of Point
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do Hawk under heavy fire to silence artillery threatening Omaha
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and Utah beaches. Which unit carried out this assault? Question five?
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To keep supplies flowing after the landings, the Allies assembled
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artificial mulberry harbors off the Normandy coast. The British harbor
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at Ramange Leban survived a severe June storm and became
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a vital hub for months by What nickname was that
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harbor known? We'll be right back with these answers after
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this break welcome back. Question one? What was the d
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DA deception plan called answer Operation Fortitude part of the
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wider Bodyguard Deception Fortitude with North and South components misled
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German commanders about Allied intentions. Double Agent Juan Poojol Garcia
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code named Garbo Fed carefully crafted false reports that helped
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keep German forces away from Normandy. Question two. Code name
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of the glider raid that seized Pegasus and Horse Bridges.
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Answer Operation dead Stick. Led by Major John Howard's d Company,
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Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. The raid captured the can
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Canal Bridge later named Pegasus Bridge and the nearby Orn
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Riverbridge horsa. Holding these crossings prevented German counter attacks from
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splitting the beachhead. Question three. Who designed the Higgins boat
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LCVP Answer Andrew Jacks ex and Higgins. New Orleans based
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Higgins Industries adapted shallow water work boats into rugged landing
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craft that could run up on beaches and unload rapidly.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower later credited Higgins's boats as crucial to
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the ally's ability to conduct amphibious assaults at scale. Question
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four Which unit scaled point to hawk? Answer? The U
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S Second Ranger Battalion under Lieutenant Colonel James Earl Rudder.
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The Rangers scaled the cliffs, discovered the guns had been
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moved inland, and located and destroyed them. They then held
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the position against counter attacks despite heavy casualties. Question five.
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Nickname of the Mulberry Harbor at Aramans Answer, Port Winston.
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The Aremanches installation Mulberry B was nicknamed Port Winston in
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homage to Winston Churchill, a champion of the concept. The
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American Mulberry at Omaha Beach was wrecked by the mid
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June storm, making Port Winston even more essential. That concludes
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today's five Daily Trivia Questions. I'm Mark Ellison, and today's
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questions were crafted with the help of AI technology. See
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you tomorrow.
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